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One measure of being good at homemaking is how quickly and efficiently you get stuff done. And, since being efficient = being good, and being good = enjoying, then being efficient = enjoying Thus, according to my sound transitive logic, enjoying homemaking means spending as little time as possible doing it. According to Deniece Schofield, […]

So you’re preparing to fly with your baby or toddler this holiday season. When we lived in France, we flew across the pond six times with baby/toddler FirstBorn, so we struggled, learned, then watched other families struggle. One Christmas we sat near an exhausted mother and father who suffered miserably for seven hours trying to […]

At our house, laundry day = movie day. That’s because approximately six loads of laundry get folded while our weekly family movie flickers on the screen. That’s because I do all our laundry in one day. And – no joke – it’s a day we all enjoy. Former Laundry Trauma Before I stumbled on the […]

It’s a sobering fact that keeping a clean house it not as simple as vacuuming and loading the dishwasher and cleaning the bathrooms. There are MANY housekeeping tasks to complete at various intervals throughout the year – too many to mentally keep track of. When’s the last time you washed your stove-hood filter? Don’t know? […]

I have dirt in my DNA. So I have to consciously remind myself of the benefits of keeping a clean house: better health, more beauty, and improved well-being. This weekend my husband said, “If I were single, I’d eat popcorn for dinner and stay up till 1am watching old Lionel Richie concerts online. But if you […]

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Traditionally, of course, the full-time homemaker is a housewife or stay-at-home-mom. These days, 70% of mothers work […]